CVE-1999-1112

Irfanview vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

3.8%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in IrfanView32 3.07 and earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long string after the "8BPS" image type in a Photo Shop image header.

Affected vendor

Irfanview

Affected product

Irfanview

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

1999-11-09

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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